There have been 38 head coaches of the Bulldogs club since their introduction into top-grade rugby league competition in 1935. Of these, most were full-time coaches, but six of them filled a captain-coach role while playing for the team.

First Grade Coaches
No.	Coach	Career	Games	Wins	Losses	Draws	Winning Percentage
1	Tedda Courtney	1935	16	2	14	0	12.5%
2	Frank Burge	1936	15	9	4	2	60%
3	George Mason	1937	8	4	4	0	50%
4	Jimmy Craig	1938	16	13	1	2	81.3%
5	Jerry Brien	1939, 1942	32	22	10	0	68.8%
6	Alan Brady	1940	16	9	7	0	56.3%
7	Ron Bailey	1941, 1944	20	9	11	0	45%
8	Roy Kirkaldy	1943	14	3	11	0	21.4%
9	Cec Fifield	1944	9	3	5	1	33.3%
10	Bill Kelly	1945	14	4	9	1	28.6%
11	Ross McKinnon	1946–1947	37	23	12	2	62.2%
12	Arthur Halloway	1948	18	7	9	2	38.9%
13	Henry Porter	1949	18	6	10	2	33.3%
14	Alby Why	1950–1952	36	14	21	1	38.9%
15	Vic Bulgin	1952, 1955	18	7	11	0	38.9%
16	Jack Hampstead	1953–1954	36	13	21	2	36.1%
17	Vic Hey	1955–1956	36	10	26	0	27.8%
18	Col Geelan	1957	18	3	14	1	16.7%
19	Cec Cooper	1958–1959	36	9	25	2	25%
20	Eddie Burns	1960–1962, 1965	75	30	42	3	40%
21	Clive Churchill	1963–1964	36	7	27	2	19.4%
22	Roger Pearman	1966	18	8	10	0	44.4%
23	Kevin Ryan	1967–1970	92	49	41	2	53.3%
24	Bob Hagan	1971–1972	44	23	21	0	52.3%
25	Malcolm Clift	1973–1977	118	62	49	7	52.5%
26	Ted Glossop	1978–1983	151	86	60	5	57%
27	Warren Ryan	1984–1987	106	70	33	3	66%
28	Phil Gould	1988–1989	47	29	16	2	61.7%
29	Chris Anderson	1990–1997	187	114	69	4	61%
30	Steve Folkes	1998–2008	289	162	128	7	56.1%
31	Kevin Moore	2009–2011	66	35	31	0	53%
32	Jim Dymock	2011	8	5	3	0	62.5%
33	Des Hasler	2012–2017	155	88	67	0	56.8%
34	Dean Pay	2018–2020	57	19	38	0	33.3%
35	Steve Georgallis	2020	11	2	9	0	18.2%
36	Trent Barrett	2021−2022	34	5	29	0	14.7%
37	Michael Potter	2022	4	1	3	0	25%
38	Cameron Ciraldo	2023−present	3	2	0	1	66.7%